Bioinspiration & biomimetics
Dec 29, 2025
Humans can now emulate language in silica-based neural networks, but we remain ignorant about how language emerged in carbon-based neural networks in the first place. This gap represents not merely a scientific blind spot, but a unique opportunity to...
Science advances
Dec 17, 2025
Natural selection has produced diverse vision systems, from simple patches of photoreceptors to complex camera eyes, representing just one set of evolutionary outcomes. Computational evolution offers a way to systematically test hypotheses, isolate i...
Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences
Nov 13, 2025
Understanding consciousness remains a significant challenge in science. What distinguishes conscious beings from unconscious systems, such as organoids, artificial intelligence or other non-sentient entities? Research on consciousness often focuses o...
Microbiology and molecular biology reviews : MMBR
Nov 6, 2025
Most known chemicals originate from humans, thousands enter industrial usage annually, and new chemicals pose a continuous challenge to microbial evolution. The evolution of microbes to biodegrade new chemicals is crucial in protecting human and ecos...
Microbial ecology
Sep 30, 2025
The host-microbiome association is considered a coevolutionary process, in which the microbiome provides important functions for host development, physiology and health. However, the ecological and evolutionary forces shaping the diversity and struct...
Scientific reports
Sep 23, 2025
Understanding microbial dynamics in natural environments remains a significant challenge. As an alternative approach, studying model bacterial strains under well-defined laboratory conditions can reveal ecological niche patterns and evolutionary cons...
Scientific reports
Aug 28, 2025
We develop an evolutionary model for individual discriminatory behavior that emerges naturally in a mixed population as an adaptive strategy. Our findings show that, when individuals have finite memory and face uncertain environments, they may rely o...
Trends in genetics : TIG
Jun 10, 2025
How does genomic information unfold, to give rise to self-constructing living organisms with problem-solving capacities at all levels of organization? We review recent progress that unifies work in developmental genetics and machine learning (ML) to ...
BioEssays : news and reviews in molecular, cellular and developmental biology
Jun 8, 2025
Organismal evolution is a process of discovering better-fitting phenotypes through trial and error across generations. This iterative process resembles learning processes, an analogy recognized since the 1950s. Recognizing this parallel suggests that...
The New phytologist
Jun 3, 2025
Podocarpus pollen morphology is shaped by both phylogenetic history and the environment. We analyzed the relationship between pollen traits quantified using deep learning and environmental factors within a comparative phylogenetic framework. We inves...